There are shags eggs down there, Jean, but the cliff right here is too steep for us to get them.
Close to her, long-necked shagson wide-spread wings balanced with dusky gracefulness before sailing away through the myriad screaming gulls.
The shags lay earlier, I believe, only their nests are so blamed hard to get at down there.
Exceptional mortality of shagsand other seabirds caused by paralytic shellfish poison.
Potts (1971) documented a molt pattern in shags (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) which is more typical of tropical seabirds.
Movements and seasonal variation in mortality of shags and cormorants ringed on the Farne Islands, Northumberland.
Precocial eiders leave the nest within a day of hatching, whereas altricial shags remain until completely grown.
For example, in shags the male collects the nest material and the female builds the nest (Snow 1963).
The numerous tentacular filaments surrounding the wide mouth resemble the shags of the chorion, which accumulate around the orifice of the umbilical cord to constitute a placenta in the higher animals.
The upper surface may be compared with the convex back of the envelopes, the lower to the concave funnel of the umbilical cord, and the succigerent filaments or hairs to the shags of the chorion.
The Shag is the most numerous of the sea birds which frequent the Islands, the Herring Gull not even excepted, every nook and corner of the high cliffs in all the Islands being occupied by scores of Shags during the breeding-season.
The Shags appear to breed rather earlier than the Herring Gulls; when I was in the Islands in June, 1876, almost all the Shags had hatched, and the young were standing by their parents on the rocks close to their nests.
These latter islets lie about eight miles to the north of North Head, and are merely rocks about eighty feet high upon which thousands of shags and other birds have established rookeries.
Hamilton was at this time concentrating his attention on shags or cormorants.
I saw severalshags on one occasion very busy fishing, and between diving intervals they would sit on the water.
They are of the common sorts, the shags being our cormorant or water-crow.
Some shags were also seen, so that we judged ourselves to be not far from land.
The shags were large and black, with a white spot behind the wings as they flew; but probably only the larger water cormorant.
If I threw my shags and hurt people, you would be welcome to capture them," was the reply.
Rich but shaggy laces were at his throat; a coat with shaggy edges was decorated with diamond buttons; the velvet breeches had jeweled buckles at the knees and shags all around the bottoms.
How would you like it, Shaggy Man, if I took all your shags away from you?
He selected a costume of pea-green and pink satin and velvet, with embroidered shags on all the edges and iridescent pearls for ornaments.
Other characters: The bark is smooth in young trees and in old trees it shags in large plates.
It differs from the white oak, however, in possessing a more straggly habit and in the fact that the bark on the under side of its branches shags in loose, large scales.
The shags and soundings were our best pilots; for after we had stood a few miles to the north, we got out of soundings, and saw no more shags.
In proceeding round the south end of Shag Island, we observed the shags to breed in vast numbers in the cliffs of the rock.
Shags breed here in vast numbers; and we carried on board not a few, as they are very good eating.
They take certain spots to themselves, and build their nests near the edge of the cliffs on little hillocks, which are either those of the sword-grass, or else they are made by the shags building on them from year to year.
Illustration: Love on a Rock: Shags During the Breeding Season.
Young shags are, at first, naked and black--also blind, as I was able to detect through the glasses.
Now and then the whole flock of gulls and shags would rise on the wing, as they lost the run of the shoal of fish.
It was most amusing to witness the widely different fishing powers of the shags and gulls, and the consequently unequal competition in the struggle for food.
Gene dearly loved dogs and Shags had instinctively recognized in him a friend, but not so Rilla.
The wildest tempest that ever raged over this coast couldn't keep me from going to see Zoey and Shags the first thing tomorrow morning.
Running races with Shags and rowing had been the only two outdoor sports Muriel had known.
Take good care of Shagsfor me," were her last words to Zoeth, "and tell him I'll come back after him as soon as ever I can.
I tried to be brave when I saw Shags and Zoey, but, Uncle Barney, how I have wanted you since my grand-dad left me.
Muriel was quickly in the lead, Shags bounding at her heels, and the lad a close third.
Oh, Miss Gordon, won't Shags be the happiest dog in all this world when he hears my voice?
When the bag was empty Muriel turned to find Shags lying some distance back of her, his head low on his paws, his limpid brown eyes watching every move that she made.
Stooping, for the cave door was too small to be entered by so tall a girl were she standing erect, Rilla disappeared from the ledge and Shags followed her.
Do you remember the day we raced withShags on the sand, and your sister came and Marianne Carnot?
Muriel had taught him that he must be very quiet when she was feeding the birds, but when she tossed the crumpled bag out upon the breeze and stood watching it fall into the sea, Shags seemed to know that he need be still no longer.
Kissing him again, Rilla went to her snug little room over the kitchen, and Shags followed, for he always slept just outside her closed door.
An hour later we saw two shags sitting on a big mass of kelp, and knew then that we must be within ten or fifteen miles of the shore.
His coat was of rose-colored velvet, trimmed with shags and bobtails, with buttons of blood-red rubies and golden shagsaround the edges.
Still, it was grand to ride at the head of the procession and it was only when Uncle Manuel would begin to beguile the way by setting Rafael sums in arithmetic, that Shags was allowed to fall back to a more humble station.
Rafael's mind was still full of the Cid when, two or three days later, he was well enough to take a short ride on Shags outside the garden.
Rafael liked to push Shags forward and ride with Uncle Manuel, although, to tell the truth, he did not care much for his uncle's talk.
There was no danger that Shags would run away with him!
And Shags and Don Quixote have the largest ears of all," added Pilarica, and then blushed to see that even her father smiled, while the Geography Gentleman gurgled and wheezed until his yellow face was streaked with purple.
There in the dying light the puffins swam and dived, and the sea-gulls screamed as they flew overhead, and on the edge of the rocks the shags stood in meditative rows.
The sea-gulls are flying and crying overhead: the shags stand in rows upon the farthest rocks: the sea-breeze blows upon my cheek.
Notwithstanding we saw shags in the forenoon, which are supposed never to go far from land, yet there was no appearance of it this day; but on the 28th, at six in the morning, we got sight of it to the N.
A night or two after, they sent out some of their young men, who procured us a quantity of a very delicate kind of birds, called shags and cormorants.
All the year round the gulls fill the air with their cries, and cormorants and shags skim the water and dive beneath its surface.
Shags are amongst the earliest breeders, and they are worth watching during their love-making, rubbing their snaky heads together and performing strange, ungainly antics.
Our seamen lived several days on young shags and penguins, of which they found the former extremely palateable, comparing them to young pullets.
The shore is composed of sandy beaches, on which were many penguins, and other oceanic birds; and an immense number of shags kept perpetually flying about the ships as we sailed along.
About the rocks are seen black sea-pies with red bills; and crested shags of a leaden colour, with small black spots on the wings and shoulders, and the rest of the upper part of a velvet black tinged with green.
About the pond or lake behind the beach, a few wild-ducks were seen; and some shagsused to perch upon the high leafless trees near the shore.
This stone was a favourite standing-place of the shags on account of its position and flat surface, and it afforded space enough to accommodate a score or more birds.
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